PUBHLTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Poliomyelitis, Typhoid Fever, Tuberculosis
22 Oct 2015
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For midterm: know your p-value and its relationship. The conquest of pestilence in new york city. Graph shows how certain diseases conquered ny city; measured by deaths per. Process of fortifying the human immune system thru a controlled introduction of an immunogen; the body learns to produce an immune response. Antimicrobial used to treat and prevent bacterial infection; ineffective for viruses. Living, single-celled organisms; can reproduce outside of the body. Ex: tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid, tetanus, diphtheria, dysentery, syphilis, streptococci, staphylococci. Nucelic acid and protein complexes; cannot reproduce itself but needs a host cell. Ex: small pox, poliomyelitis, hepatitis, measles, rabies, aids, yellow fever. Protozoa are single-celled animals that live inside a host without killing it. Must be present in every disease case. Must be isolated and grown in a lab. When injected with the lab grown culture, test animals must develop the disease. Must be isolated from newly infected and process repeated.
